5. The Use of Documents in Xenophon’s Hellenica Cinzia Bearzot The conference ‘L’uso dei documenti nella storiografia antica’ (Gubbio 22–24 maggio 2001), which presented findings of research conducted under the direction of Paolo Desideri, and the proceedings of which were published in 2003, highlighted the fact that ancient historians, although well […]
4. At the Boundary of Historiography: Xenophon and his Corpus Roberto Nicolai 1. Historians and Sophists The terms sophist and sophistic are commonly applied to a diverse group of people, united by a broad range of interests, areas of expertise, and a preference for disseminating their works by way of […]
3. Rethinking Isocrates and Historiography [1] John Marincola 1. It is a truism often expressed when studying classical historiography that we are hampered by an absence of theoretical writings on the subject. Although we know the names of several works written “On History” in antiquity, [2] only three essays have […]
2. Looking for the Invisible: Theopompus and the Roots of Historiography Riccardo Vattuone 1. Theopompus and the Historiography of the IVth Century BCE It is not only the fragmentary nature of his work that hinders a critical evaluation of Theopompus. The idiosyncratic interests of one of his most important witnesses, […]
1. Introduction [In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made elsewhere to the […]
Acknowledgments The papers collected in this volume originate from two conferences held at Harvard University and at the University of Bologna in 2007 and organized by Nino Luraghi and Riccardo Vattuone. Support for the events and for a particularly long editorial process has been provided by the Loeb Fund of the Department […]
Bibliography Classical Sources Greek Aelian Dilts, Mervin R., ed. 1974. Claudii Aeliani Varia Historia. Leipzig. Herodotus Hude, Karl, ed. 1927. Herodoti Historiae. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Oxford. Hesiod West, M. L., ed. 1966. Hesiod. Theogony. Oxford. Repr., 1997. […]
Conclusion. Affirmative and Interrogative Epics So far, I have discussed the Greek and Sanskrit epics largely separately. In Chapters 1 and 2, I examined the ways in which the Greek poems and their Sanskrit counterparts classified themselves, and I considered the effects that the reclassification of each pair of poems, as epics, […]
4. Hearkening to Kuśa and Lava and to Nala: Poetic Monarchs on the Ideal of Dharma in the Hindu Epics The Hindu epics differ further from their Homeric counterparts by featuring rulers who are not merely similar to poets, but actually are poets. Yet these figures are not the heroes of the […]
3. Listening to Achilles and to Odysseus: Poetic Kings on the Ideal of Kléos in the Homeric Epics The contrasting construals of kléos in the Iliad and the Odyssey are embodied by the poems’ bickering protagonists, Achilles and Odysseus, in the first song that Demodocus sings in Odyssey 8.72–82. In this performance, […]